Rozpis výukových jednotek

Week 1

Intro - Analogie a kontrasty

Benjamin Zephaniah: Miss World

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Week 2

Roald Dahl: Edward the Conqueror
Focus: narrative structure, narrator´s credibility

Week 3

Somerset Maugham: The Verger

Charles Johnson: Oxherding Tale

Focus: reading for instruction, a cautionary tale

Week 4

Julian Barnes: The Visitors (A History of the World in 10½ Chapters)

Focus: full and limited omniscience, altruism vs. self-interest

Week 5-6

Kurt Vonnegut: Who Am I This Time

Andre Dubus: The Fat Girl

Focus: analogies and contrasts, narrative authority

Week 7

Bernard Malamud: A Magic Barrel

Focus: interpretive role-playing, culture-specific reading

Week 8

John Steinbeck: The Murder

Focus: narrative ambiguity, Melting Pot vs Salad Bowl

Week 9-10

Kate Chopin: The Story of an HourC.B. Divakaruni: Clothes

Focus: generic formulas in writing, Bildungsroman

Week 11

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Mark Twain: The Story of the Bad Boy Who Didn´t Come to Grief

H. C. Andersen: The Emperor´s New Clothes

Focus: cautionary tale, parable, hyperbole, narrative crescendo

Week 12-13

Charles Johnson: Menagerie, A Child´s Fable

George Orwell: Animal Farm (film + excerpts)

Focus: allegory, animal fable